Our correspondent says that the body of the three-year-old child who went missing yesterday was found a few moments ago in Neluwa area.
Army life guards have managed to find the child’s body in a stream near the house. Since the time the child went missing yesterday, the police and nearby residents searched for the child and finally a resident saw that the child was near the road not far from the house.
The child’s mother is an employee of the Matugama Divisional Secretariat and this incident took place when she went to her village for her annual holiday. Yesterday morning, the residents went to bathe in a nearby stream and the child was kept at home due to illness. The police say that it is believed that the child who came out of the house at that time may have wandered into the canal by the road